Writing https://www.youtube.com/embed/JxveS-Kx_9I Abdulrazak Gurnah delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2021. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2021General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2021, 5:00 p.m. CET. Publication in periodicals or books otherwise than in summary requires the consent of the Foundation. On…

Utdrag ur Den sista gåvan En dag I EN DAG, LÅNGT innan oroligheterna började, smet han i väg utan att säga ett ord till någon och vände aldrig tillbaka. Och så en annan dag, fyrtiotre år senare, föll han ihop alldeles innanför ytterdörren till sitt hus i en liten stad i England. Dagen var långt…

Curious about 2021 literature laureate but can’t decide which of his books to start with? We asked three members of the literature committee at the Swedish Academy – who decide on the year’s Nobel Prize in Literature – to give us their recommendations. Anne Swärd on By the Sea In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels the protagonists…

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the prize in economic sciences are awarded to the Nobel Prize laureates. This year, the award ceremony was…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gj7_oN8QEiQ Watch Abdulrazak Gurnah read the excerpt from By the Sea. Excerpt from By the Sea I speak to maps. And sometimes they say something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it…

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Interview, April 2022 https://www.youtube.com/embed/gu1TqDhnLlw “There are certain moments I think that never, never go away” Carin Klaesson, Content Manager of Public Programs at the Nobel Prize Museum, sat down to talk to 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on 28 April 2022. In a wide ranging conversation they spoke…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFJujtGULXg Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 to Abdulrazak Gurnah, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 7 October 2021. After the announcement Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, presented the laureate in Swedish and English and answered questions from the audience.

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English Biobibliography Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean but arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the 1960s. After the peaceful liberation from British colonial rule in December 1963 Zanzibar went through a revolution which, under President Abeid Karume’s regime,…